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was fordul.
Our prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam
used to love being consistent.
And this is one of the things that most
of us Muslims lack.
We're so impulsive. We do things and we
let go.
And this happens in worldly issues which
is okay.
But to have this in religious issues is
a problem.
Someone loves a hobby, they pick it up,
they love photography, they start to buy
a camera, lenses, different types of
filters and the likes and they're so
obsessed by it. After some time they let
go and all money goes down the drain.
They focus on cycling. So they buy
inexpensive bicycle and the helmets and
the gear and they go on tours and then
they leave that and go to fishing. All
of this is fine because it's worldly
issues and this is part of human nature.
But when it comes to religious
activities,
it is not fine. Mother Aisha was asked
what is the most beloved deeds to the
prophetatam
and she answered doing things
consistently.
So
when you do things consistently,
this means that you are doing it for the
sake of Allah. But when you do it and
you let go as if you are giving your
back to Allahawel
and when you are consistent
then you are doing it for the sake of
Allah anticipating the reward from Allah
and not
turning it off after some time.
So the prophet's
actions were always consistent and this
is why whenever he picked something
sallallahu alaihi wasallam and adjusted
his routine he would never let go of it.
Abdah
may Allah be pleased with him and with
his father. He said that the prophet
sallallahu alaihi wasallam told me once,
"Oh Abdullah, don't be like
XY Z someone he knows." He used to pray
night prayer and then he abandoned it.
And this is why
says if one is consistent with doing
goodness, he should be always doing it
and continuing to do it. So for example,
if you are consistent on praying
four before two after two after and two
before al then you should be consistent
on that. Never let go. If you pray night
prayers, never let go because this is
the way of the prophet. Wasam. He goes
on to say likewise and more importantly
if Allahawel gives you the energy
the enthusiasm to seek knowledge to
study to learn more about Islamith
and the likes then you should not ever
abandon this gift this favor and
blessing so that you would not show any
ingratitude to Allah after guiding you.
You should be consistent. And
of course, the most beloved thing to
Allah is to do what Allah mandated upon
you as per the
servant would not do something more
beloved to me than what I've mandated
upon him. And after that comes the
voluntary acts. So
be careful because inconsistency
is a characteristic of the hypocrites.
They used to start to do good things and
they would retreat as in the battle of
when the prophet sallall alaihi wasallam
went to the battle of there were 1,000
men with him and all of a sudden
one-third
turned their back and went back to
Medina and left the prophetat wasam
onethird almost 300 or more and how
Would they justify their actions as
mentioned in the Quran?
If we knew how to fight and if we knew
that there will be war and there will be
a fight between us and them, we would
have accompanied you. But we we know
that there is not going to be any kind
of war or any type of battle. Allah says
they are closer to disbelief than they
are to Islam or to iman on that day.
So we have to put our level best in
being consistent. The prophet loved
sallallahu alaihi wasallam as per the
hadith mentioned before he loved prayer.
His delight was put in praying to
Allahawel. his coolness of I
and his love for the women because they
carried
the religion to the whole ummah.
His wives narrated what the prophet did
in his home. So they taught us, our
mothers taught us how to deal with women
and how to deal in privacy. And that's
why he sallallahu alaihi wasallam
married those who were widowed, those
who were divorced, those who were
abandoned by their disbelieving
husbands.
He did not marry for the sake of worldly
lust and desires.
Among all those whom he married
only
was young and a virgin and the rest were
all either widowed or divorced or the
likes. A man in his status, in his
authority, in his power could have
married a virgin, a young virgin every
week. But this wasn't the prophetat
wasallam. He wanted to serve the ummah
and that's why he selected the wives he
had.
So
prayer
was his delight
and whenever he was
I wouldn't say depressed but whenever he
was worried about something he would say
to Bilal oh bilal comfort us with the
prayer do so that we would
join the prayer and feel the comfort
that Allah would put in our hearts and
place tranquility in our chests. And
this prayer
is something else.
It is the only form of worship that was
given to the prophet directly.
So he received the revelation
of the five daily prayers on the seventh
heaven when he went on the miraculous
night journey. It wasn't through gi
Allah gave it to him directly
and without any intermediates.
So this prayer
originally was 50 and then allahel
reduced it to five
but with the reward of 50. This prayer
is the only thing in Islam where when
you leave it out of laziness
and you abandon it and you don't pray at
all you become a kafir as per the hadith
of Jabir may Allah be pleased with him
the prophet saidatam between man and
shik or kufur abandoning salat and the
pledge between us and them is salat
whoever abandons it has become a kafir
and the verses of the Quran are so many
and the hadiths are so many and all of
this shows you that the prayer has a
huge and great impact in our lives
didn't the prophet say
that a sign of hypocrisy
is to become lazy from attending the
prayers in the masjid
Didn't he say that the heaviest prayers
upon the hypocrites are the prayers of
Isa? Had they known the reward in it,
they would have come crawling to it. And
all of these a hadith indicates that
your identity and mine is identified and
realized by observing the prayer in the
masid five times a day till the day we
die.
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